Open Source McAfee Issues Warning Over 'Ambiguous' Open Source Licenses Looks like the recent Software Freedom Law Center filings may have had some impact on how companies think. From a recent InformationWeek article: McAfee frequently cautions other companies about the latest bugs and computer viruses, but the security software maker is now warning that its own business could be in
Linux On the record with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's new CEO When Red Hat announced that Jim Whitehurst, the COO of Delta, would be taking over for Matthew Szulik there were quite a few skeptics. As I noted, going outside the tech industry for a CEO has had both its ups and downs. After reading this interview of Jim Whitehurst by
Linux Voting for the 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is Now Open I just opened the polls for the 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. There are 27 polls this year, more than even before. This is the 7th time we've run the LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards, and we've had a record turnout each and every year.
Open Source A quasi-comprehensive look at Open Source in 2007 Did you miss some of the Open Source happenings in 2007? Would you like a quick overview of those happenings? You're in luck. Matt Asay put together a two part overview that is succinct but fairly comprehensive. Thanks Matt. --jeremy
LinuxQuestions.org Happy New Year! On behalf of myself and LinuxQuestions.org I'd like to wish everyone a very happy new year. As the year comes to an end, it's a great time to reflect on the year that passed and look forward to the year ahead. 2007 was another great
SCO No More SCOX It looks like SCO has finally been delisted from the Nasdaq. The ticker is now SCOXQ.PK on the OTC board. From the "SCO Receives Nasdaq Notice Letter" press release: LINDON, Utah, Dec. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. ("SCO") (Nasdaq: SCOX - News), a
Linux Matthew Szulik resigns as Red Hat CEO, is replaced by an airline COO Matthew Szulik has somewhat abruptly announced his departure as CEO of Red Hat. He will remain on as chairman of the board. It's extremely sad to see this is a result of family illness (which is sometimes a euphemism in CEO departures, but in this case is legitimate
Open Source Update on the Sun/NetApp ZFS patent litigation: Change of venue, prior art A follow up on some previous coverage. It looks like Sun has provided an update to Matt about the pending ZFS litigation. As of Friday, December 14, Sun has filed reexamination requests for three Network Appliance patents as part of its response to a lawsuit initially filed by Network Appliance
Open Source A Global Open Source Census There's an issue that has always been contentious when it comes to Open Source. How do you accurately and definitively measure adoption. Due to the myriad ways Open Source code can be disseminated, the answer has historically been "you can't". Sure, you can use
Linux Red Hat: BofA Downgrades; Cites Troubles With JBoss (via Matt) Following news that Novell may be building momentum comes news that Bank of America has downgraded RHT. As is often the case with stock analysts, more are piling on the downgrade now. From Barrons: Red Hat (RHT) shares are lower today after Bank of America analyst Kirk Materne
Linux Some Novell Momentum It looks like Novell might be quietly building up some momentum. First came news that Office Depot is consolidating onto the SLES platform: In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1. In
Microsoft Not much SMB dollars today for open-source vendors, the 451 Group finds Matt points to a report by The 451 Group indicating that Open Source has not had much penetration in the SMB market. It's not surprising to see The 451 Group's findings that the small-to-medium-sized business market doesn't promise untold riches to open-source vendors. The
FSF Progress on license interoperability with Wikipedia It looks like an issue I've been watching closely, due to its ramifications for the LQ Wiki, may be close to a resolution. From a Creative Commons post: As announced last night by Jimmy Wales (video), the Wikimedia Foundation board has passed a resolution on licensing: * The Foundation
Linux Torvalds on where Linux is headed in 2008 A key benefit of Linux, and Open Source in general, is flexibility. Linus underscores this in a recent interview: In your opinion, where does Linux shine versus Windows? Reliability? Virtualisation? I think the real strength of Linux is not in any particular area, but in the flexibility. For example, you
Microsoft Top ten terrible tech products - Vista makes the list By most accounts, Vista has not been the success Microsoft was looking for. While I've never used it myself, I was surprised to see it make a "Top ten terrible tech products" list on cnet: Windows Vista Any operating system that provokes a campaign for its
Microsoft Patent Firm Acacia Loses Case Against Microsoft; More To Come? It looks like Acacia, who recent filed a suit against Red Hat and Novell, just lost its first court battle. From a paidContent article: The notorious patent holding company Acacia Research, which first came to light in the digital media industry for claiming broad patents in the streaming media field,
Linux HP CEO: Vista Never Had Its Moment in 2007 It's clear that OEMs just don't fear Microsoft like they used to. From a recent CIO article: Wondering what's happened to momentum for Microsoft's Vista operating system in corporate America? Fact is, enterprise IT has continued to decline the Vista plate like
Google Lessons from Google and Red Hat for Facebook and Open Source Matt has articulated something I've tried to explain to people many times. From his post: Twentieth century software business models focus on scarcity because they're founded upon 20th century conceptions of property (actually, their origin is a few centuries' older than that, but never mind)
Apple Apple Support Did you know that if you walk into an Apple store with a broken iPhone, in this case a roughly one inch horizontal band on the touch screen that doesn't register anything, they actually tell you to make an appointment and come back another time? I don'
Dell Solaris and Dell Jonathan recently announced a partnership with Dell on his blog. First, we announced a key relationship with Dell, through which they'll be OEM'ing Solaris, and directly supporting customers running Solaris on Dell systems. Second, we announced our free/open source virtualization roadmap, starting with xVM and
Linux OLPC Give One Get One program is now live The OLPC Give One Get One program is now officially open. One learning child. One connected child. One laptop at a time. The mission of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one connected laptop to every school-age child. In
Open Source Oracle mulls vote on open source at upcoming shareholders meeting II As a follow up to this post, Jonas just informed me that 127,717,018 shares voted in favor of the proposal. From his email: In the end, we received the support of 127,717,018 shares. That is 3.58% of the vote and approximately $2.8 billion in
Linux Linux wins Nigerian school desktops back from Microsoft It looks like the open letter to Steve Ballmer from Mandriva may have had an impact. From the article: Mandriva had closed a deal in mid-August to provide a customised Linux operating system and support for 17,000 Intel Classmate PCs intended for Nigerian schools, but found out last week
Linux Amazon to host Red Hat Linux online In a move that's somewhat divergent from the direction they've been headed, Red Hat recently announced that RHEL will soon be available on the Amazon EC2 platform. I say somewhat divergent because Red Hat had been clearly focused on the Enterprise market for a while now.
Open Source Constructing the Bazaar: Taking advantage of the open-source development model in your project A great post by Juergen about the Open Source development model. If you truly want external community participation, it's not enough to just throw code over the wall - you have to make participation as easy as possible. Think distributed and think part-time to enable the Bazaar And
